SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Marguerite Higgins

1920 - 1966

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Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. She had a long career with the New York Herald Tribune (1942–1963) and as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963–1965). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Higgins has received more than 305,449 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marguerite Higgins is the 634th most popular social activist (down from 497th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Hong Kong (down from 59th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Marguerite Higgins by language

Over the past year Marguerite Higgins has had the most page views in the with 53,841 views, followed by Korean (3,852), and French (3,292). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (94.22%), Swedish (90.64%), and Korean (85.55%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Marguerite Higgins ranks 634 out of 840. Before her are Yolanda King, Iqbal Masih, Stanislav Markelov, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Razan Zaitouneh, and Amelia Boynton Robinson. After her are Chen Guangcheng, Lucy Burns, Elizaveta Glinka, Maggie Gobran, Ashin Wirathu, and Lydia Cacho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Marguerite Higgins ranks 426. Before her are Satish Dhawan, Josef Doležal, Wayne Thiebaud, Simon Pimenta, John O'Connor, and Luisa Cuesta. After her are Elliot Richardson, McDonald Bailey, István Szívós, Jimmy Witherspoon, Sammy Lee, and Errol Barrow. Among people deceased in 1966, Marguerite Higgins ranks 225. Before her are Eric Fleming, Knut Torell, George Goulding, Bimal Roy, Alfred Engelsen, and Ethel Clayton. After her are Lucy Burns, Katsuo Takaishi, Louis A. Johnson, Sydney Camm, Walt Hansgen, and William Frawley.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, Marguerite Higgins ranks 77 out of 115. Before her are Sandy Lam (1966), Byron Mann (1967), Herman Li (1976), Marco Fu (1978), Charmaine Sheh (1975), and Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (1975). After her are Eason Chan (1974), Kara Wai (1960), Sammi Cheng (1972), Charles Ng (1960), Maggie Shiu (1965), and Gillian Chung (1981).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Hong Kong

Among social activists born in Hong Kong, Marguerite Higgins ranks 2. Before her are Szeto Wah (1931). After her are Joshua Wong (1996).

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